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“Selalu kelilingi diri Anda dengan teman-teman yang memiliki banyak cahaya di dalamnya. Dengan begitu, Anda akan selalu memiliki lilin di sekitar Anda saat hari gelap.”

“Kematangan nalar adalah pusara terakhir bagi segala kegaiban dan absurditas. Di sanalah kita membunuh ilusi, dan di sanalah pula kita membangun kemanusiaan. Peradaban yang utuh bukan dibangun atas dasar iman yang absolut, melainkan atas dasar nalar yang terbuka. Ia tidak membutuhkan dominasi, tetapi partisipasi. Ia tidak menindas perbedaan, tetapi merayakannya dalam harmoni.”

“Kanaatime göre Müslüman dünyasındaki ahlâkî çöküntünün ve dinî hayattaki bozulmaların en önemli nedenlerinden biri otoriter siyaset anlayışının egemenliğidir. Bu anlayış, yandaş bir ulema sınıfı, bugün itibariyle bir din adamı sınıfı oluşturarak İslam'ı özünden saptırdığı gibi toplumu da ilim, iman, ahlâk, adalet ve İslam'dan saptırmıştır. Bu gerçeği kabul etmeden ve sorgulamadan çöküşten, kaos ve ahlaksızlıktan çıkış yolu bulacağımızı düşünmüyorum.”

“In my experience an insane person (and I have met a few) is someone who believes that the entire universe and everything in it is conspiring against him. The sane person, on the other hand, is the one who believes that the entire universe and everything in it is conspiring for him. I, fortunately, am a denizen of the latter category. (p. 283)”

“Kada bi borcu postao pancir težak pa ga odstranio, i sablja teška pa je bacio, i hrana i piće teški pa ih negdje ostavio, potom sretne neprijatelja bez oružja, pancira, gladan i žedan kako mu se može suprostaviti?! Isti je slučaj s vjernikom kome zikr postane težak pa ga napusti, i dova teška pa je ostavi, i dobrovoljni namazi postanu teški pa ih ostavi, i propisanani namazi pa ih ne klanja u propisano vrijeme, i naredbe i zabrane teški pa ih se ne pridržava, potom se žali kako ga je šejtan porazio?! Ne, vec je on samog sebe izdao i porazio! Svevišnji Allah kaže: "I sami sebe u propast ne dovodite" El-Bekara, 195.”

“With his iman, he will split open and sift everything he sees. He will pierce through it with his wisdom and his firm certitude and determination, without allowing his mind to become fatigued, without allowing his heart to give up. If he can continue to pierce and cut through what is within everything, he will see only Allah. He will see Allah‘s wealth, Allah‘s powers, Allah‘s qualities, and nothing else. In every moment, in every tree, in every flower, and in every blade of grass, he will see only God. In every tree, every fruit, every fragrance, every flower, every bird, every cow, every goat, in whatever he beholds he will see only the secret of Allah, the powers or wilayats of Allah, and the qualities of Allah. When he looks at an ant he will discover Allah‘s secrets. When he looks at a fruit he will be amazed and say, „What a wonder! How praiseworthy You are. How subtly You have created the fruit. What flavors it contains!“ If he looks at a honeybee he will see how much wisdom it has, how it builds its house, what qualities it has, and how it tastes the honey and shares it with everyone. (p. 4)”

“Saya sendiri orang agamawan, tapi yang terpenting sebenarnya adalah iman. Iman itu inklusif, sedang agama harus dan selayaknya ekslusif.... Betul, banyak sekali manusia beragama, tapi tidak beriman. Sedangkan tidak sedikit yang tidak beragama, "atheis dalam praksisnya", tetapi beriman: bersikap baik pada sesama, suka menolong yang lemah dlsb. Memang, idealnya, dua-duanya, beragama sekaligus beriman. Tapi hal ini membutuhkan pergulatan terus-menerus seumur hidup. Hal ini perlu sekali disadari karena menyangkut pandangan kita terhadap sesama manusia dan alam, ilmu pengetahuan dan yang lebih sempit lagi, sains, dan teknologi itu sendiri”

“One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount.”

“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”

“I was the first person that had been so kind to Iman Abdulmajid. As time went on, and she became successful, signed with an agency, when she had to make big decisions, she wouldn't always talk to an agent, she'd ask me. I'd give her good advice and she'd be on her way. When I had ideas to do things like the Black Girls Coalition, I would always talk to her, she always loved my ideas. She trusts me.”

“When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.”